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a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...
for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...
have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...
will be more familiar with the work than audiences of today. It is said by most critics that Cymbeline is one of William...
lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...
do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...
he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him t...
a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...
a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...
is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...
pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...
and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...
rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...
and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...
me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...
the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...
directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...
A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...
varied character base to symbolize these developments. Prosperos relationship with his two servants, Ariel and Caliban, is partic...
the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...
perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...